About this title: This book presents an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides an excellent perspective on the latest developments in the historiography of the range, drawing from topics such as Wild West shows, artistic depictions of the cowboy, and the economic and practical aspects of early cattle ranching. The essays anthologized here fall into three general areas: the working cowboy, the performing cowboy and the imaginary cowboy, and the academics, ranchers, poets and cowboys who authored them hail from ...
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Edition: First Canadian
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Calgary Press, Calgary
Date Published: 1997
Description: Cattle ranching and the 49th parallel, how ranching history and the cattle industry was affected by the border. About Near Fine in brown wrappers (softcover). Corner crease. Photos.232pp. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Boulder and Calgary: Univ of Calgary Press and Univ Press of Colorado
Date Published: 2000
Description: Fine. 232pp, illus, biblio, index. Twelve articles on Canadian cowboys and ranching. Includes 8 full-color plates of Russell paintings. Does the Border Matter? Cattle Ranching and the 49th Parallel; Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Culture, and the Canadian Connection; Fred Stimson and the Bar U Ranch; George Lane: From Cowboy to Cattle King; Impact of the Depression on Grazing Lease Policy in Alberta; etc. Originally published at $25.95. [O4/O7/404] read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN-13:9781552380192ISBN:155238019X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN-13:9781552380192ISBN:155238019X
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